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The Upper Tours article discusses the high percentage of indigenous people in Latin America, with around 42 million in countries like Mexico, Guatemala, Bolivia, and Peru. These communities govern themselves due to their large populations and poverty. They face challenges such as natural disasters, water contamination, deforestation, illegal logging, and mining. Indigenous women suffer from double marginalization. Despite struggles, they are fighting against pollution and inequality to survive in their communities. Hi, my name is Allison Villareal and I will be talking about what we learned, or what I learned in the Upper Tours article. So in the article they do talk about the large percentages of indigenous people in Latin America. In 2010 there was a bunch of data backing up that there was around 42 million indigenous people in Latin America, such as Mexico, Guatemala, Bolivia, and Peru. They have large populations which lead them to leading their own government, basically, and how the indigenous community suffers so much from poverty that they are trying to govern themselves, basically. In the large cities, it is very prone to being very in disasters or natural disasters compared to non-indigenous residents, or to non-indigenous communities that are more safe than the actual indigenous communities. They fight against water contamination, deforestation, and the growth of illegal logging and mining. Women are also to suffer more than men in these communities as well, since indigenous women suffer from double marginalization. In Latin America they really do struggle within the indigenous communities, and they are working together to survive, basically, in their communities by fighting back against pollution and inequality within where they live.